Scientists know that the principle of fusion is valid because they have applied it in thermonuclear explosions.

They need 'em to figure out what happens in the first few nanoseconds of a thermonuclear explosion.

For it could survive anything except a thermonuclear explosion- and maybe even that.

About every 20 years, enough material from the red giant builds up on the surface of the white dwarf to produce a thermonuclear explosion.

The yield was 24.2 Mt making it the second largest thermonuclear explosion in history.

Some of the thermonuclear explosions are at the edge of the atmosphere.

My meters picked up a thermonuclear explosion about three hours ago.

With a start Kirk realized it looked like nothing so much as pictures he had seen of thermonuclear explosions.

"What can you say to an alien being," she said, "after you've announced yourself with a thermonuclear explosion? "

The news programs showed video of the latest method, which set off big underground thermonuclear explosions, very deep under Vastitas.